MemeMachineGo!

This is something I almost blogged when it was new: Dogs ate my WMDs .

After several years teaching high school, I’ve heard all the excuses. I didn’t get my homework done because my computer crashed, because my project partner didn’t do their part, because I feel sick, because I left it on the bus, because I had a dance recital, because I was abducted by aliens and viciously probed. Houdini doesn’t have as many tricks. No one on earth is more inventive than a high school sophomore backed into a corner and faced with a zero on an assignment. No one, perhaps, except Bush administration officials forced now to account for their astounding claims made since September 2002 regarding Iraq’s alleged weapons program. […] They lied. Period. Trust a teacher on this. We can spot liars who have not done their homework a mile away.

Days after that was published, Bush claimed that looters stole my WMDs .

In his weekly radio address yesterday, Mr Bush was forced to produce a new explanation of why the US has not found Iraq’s alleged chemical and biological weapons. He told listeners that suspect sites had been looted in the closing days of Saddam Hussein’s regime.

It becomes hard not to suspect that they’re not only not even trying, but that they’re going out of their way to make ludicrous excuses just to taunt the minority who care with how much they can get away with.

(See also comments at Scratchings and Making Light .)